Posts Tagged ‘Visual Studio’
Sometimes, despite Visual Studio being an excellent IDE, you want to go the No VS route and hack your code in notepad. Perhaps you just want to make a quick change and its not worth firing up the full VS experience. Maybe you are only checking the code as a background time-filler in between other [...]
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Tags: Tools, Tools & Tips, Visual Studio
Twelve months ago I wrote a post documenting “installing Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows Home Server” which has proved very popular. Well things move on and since then Microsoft have released a new version of Windows Home Server (WHS 2011). There are many differences between V2 of WHS compared to V1 but the main [...]
Filed under: Geek Tech, Home Server, Team Foundation Server, Windows | 1 Comment
Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio, WHS, Windows Server
Whilst checking the Windows Event Log on my server I found this worrying error being reported by the Team Foundation Server Power Tools Backup & Restore Tool : Error: Tfpt Backup Restore : There is an error in XML document (499, 100). I posted an article about using this tool to backup your TFS server [...]
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Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tips, Tools, Visual Studio
Last October I posted about the fact that Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server 2010 was going to be shipping with a “Basic” configuration that more light weight and seen as more of a Visual SourceSafe replacement. In that post I also pointed out that it seemed possible to install this version on a Windows Home Server [...]
Filed under: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, Tools & Tips | 6 Comments
Tags: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio, WHS, Windows Server
If like me you’re always on the lookout for neat little icons and images to add to your shiny .Net applications then you might like to know that Visual Studio includes an image library for you to use. The library is located on your hard drive within the Visual Studio installation at: For Visual Studio [...]
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Tags: Tips, Visual Studio
Many development teams still regularly use Visual SourceSafe for their source control which can stimulate heated debates between those that have used it for many years without problems and those that have suffered some pain with it. Regardless of this debate there is no denying that SourceSafe is coming to the end of it’s useful [...]
Filed under: Home Server, Team Foundation Server | 1 Comment
Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio
I recently opened a SCSF project that was having build problems and I found that once the build problems had been corrected the GAT recipes were not working. An error was being reported when I tried to run the Add Module recipe: Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.RecipeExecutionException: An exception occurred during the binding of reference or execution of recipe [...]
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Tags: .Net, SCSF, Smart Client, Visual Studio
SCSF Problems with VS2008 SP1
There is an issue with the 2008 version of the Smart Client Software Factory and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The guidance recipes don’t work correctly and won’t provide the “Add View” options etc. This is an SP1 issue only. There is a work around but it involves changing the Guidance Package Source code. For more [...]
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Tags: .Net, SCSF, Smart Client, Visual Studio
Run this command to see who has something checked out in TFS: “C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7IDEtf.exe” status /server:SERVERNAME /user:* $/TFSPROJECTBRANCH /recursive /login:DOMAINYOURUSERNAME,YOURPASSWORD Change the parent branch by replacing the TFSPROJECTBRANCH with the name of an alternative branch. For VS2005 only machines change Visual Studio 9.0 to Visual Studio 8. For best results pipe the [...]
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Tags: TFS, Tips, Visual Studio
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